Quotes About Inclination

True genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction.

Where the world is inclined to favour, replied I, it is apt to over-rate, as much as it will under-rate where it disfavours.

Sometimes you can't choose what you love.

Mentre la vita ci trascina, crediamo di agire di nostra volontà, di scegliere la nostra attività, i nostri divertimenti; a ben vedere siamo costretti a eseguire solo i progetti, le inclinazioni del tempo.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Well, for people who like that kind of thing, I think that is just about the kind of thing they'd like.

I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people—"base.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don't like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It's the same thing with men. You have men who prefer lighter women and men who prefer darker women.

I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from my father, and by the time I was 15 or 16, my interests had focused on theoretical physics.

I just got an ear for the kind of things I like.

but she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.

Do what it is your nature to do. This is but a taste of it. Do what it is your nature to do.

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

In a way, we're all addicts by nature.

She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur'd to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for the Character she had assum'd, to yield so suddenly, and unable to deny both his and her own Inclinations, she counterfeited a fainting, and fell motionless upon his Breast.

I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their own, nicely accompanied in their singularity by the companion of possibility. For cannot any man, young or old, rich or poor, turn a few corners and bump into marriage?

Remember I am not temptation to you, but everything is which inclines you away. Nor are you to me, but my entire goal.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.